Gluck Und Die Oper - 2 Volume Set

by Adolf Bernhard Marx

Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795-1866), the music critic and composer, spent much of his career as professor of music in Berlin and was a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn. His publications included an influential textbook on composition and a biography of Beethoven. The preface to this two-volume study, published in 1863, ranks Gluck (1714-87) wtih Handel, Mozart and Beethoven at the pinnacle of musical achievement. Marx describes Gluck's radical innovations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110803876X
• ISBN13: 9781108038768
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 958 Pages
• Weight: 2.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"